September 30th 2009 - Instantaneous Healing

The healing process begins instantaneously. The moment you cut your skin, your body begins to clot the blood and close the cut. The moment you stop eating a food that is unhealthy for you, your body starts repairing the damage and returning to good health. The body's ability to heal, however, is limited. If it gets overwhelmed by too big a healing task, or too many healing tasks at once, it may not make it. So it is with the Earth.

The Earth is just a big body. It has natural ways of healing and cleansing itself. If you cut down half the trees in a forest and then left the forest alone for a few years, you'd come back to find a lot of stuff that grew in the area where the cutting took place. If you dumped some stuff in a river, and then left it alone for twenty years, you would probably not detect much of what you had dumped twenty years earlier in the water. If you continually cut the trees without ever stopping, or you never stop dumping in the water, then it's another story. The forest or river becomes overwhelmed.

And so, we are at where we are at with the Earth. Where we are at is a result of our collective will. When we, collectively, decide to focus our intentions on preserving and renewing the Earth's ecosystems, the healing process will begin, automatically. If we, collectively, decide to continue cutting down, paving and destroying, we will eventually be left with a planet that will be uninhabitable by human beings. If there were no humans here, and we just got out of Nature's way, trust me that things would heal pretty quickly. The healing process begins instantaneously.

While we may not be able to make a global impact on the way we, collectively, treat the Earth in our day-to-day dealings, we can at least make a small impact. People watch what other people do, and sometimes change their habits when they see another's behavior that they believe is more appropriate. Yesterday, I picked up some stuff that had fallen on the floor near the cash register of a store where I was checking out, and the woman in front of me asked her young daughter, "Why didn't you pick that stuff up, like that man did?" Everything that people see you do has an impact. Even if they don't change, it at least affects their perspective. If they see a few other people acting the same way, afterwards, then they may change.

Why not try monitoring some of your behavior regarding your connection to the Earth?

• Can you choose a product that has less packaging, and, thus, less waste?
• Can you spend a little more on an organic product, knowing that pesticides were not sprayed?
• Can you put that plastic bottle in the trunk of your car and take it home to be recycled, instead of throwing it in a trash can?
• Can you eat a little less meat, knowing that factory farming causes a host of problems for the environment?
• Can you turn off the lights when you leave a room, knowing that most of our energy is currently produced by burning environmentally harmful substances?

I could go on and list hundreds of things you could do. There are so many that will become obvious to you if you just pay attention to what you are doing. Everything you do, personally, that impacts the Earth, will have an effect, even if it's tiny. Your individual will, eventually merges with the collective will. As individuals change, other people begin to change with them. As our collective will changes, big changes occur rapidly. Five years ago, who was on Facebook? Did it even exist? Now we almost all are on Facebook, daily.

Are you ready for the Earth to heal? Are you ready to drink clean, pure water again? Are you ready to breathe clean air again? Are you ready to eat food that serves your body and feeds good health? Are you ready to herald in a new, Green Era where we take the Earth into consideration in everything we do, instead of looking at everything purely in terms of dollars and cents? I am ready! It's already happening. What little changes can you make right now to help the healing process? Can you just pay a little more attention to your behavior and how it impacts your environment?

Let The Healing Begin!
Alan